Software Engineer at a consultancy with self employed
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2023-11-15T14:41:00Z
Nov 15, 2023
For their use case, my client wanted a "certified" version that they would forget to administrate, and so, for the main database, they chose the serverless offer. For experimenting in-house they like to use the freely downloadable open source version, which is very easy to install. The price is irresistible, and if some crash happens there is a reliable backup in the cloud.
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I am not very familiar with the pricing as I am now only in the experimental phase.
The solution's pricing is not cheap. However, the good thing is that customers are willing to pay for it if they want it.
For their use case, my client wanted a "certified" version that they would forget to administrate, and so, for the main database, they chose the serverless offer. For experimenting in-house they like to use the freely downloadable open source version, which is very easy to install. The price is irresistible, and if some crash happens there is a reliable backup in the cloud.
The pricing is good but can be made cheaper. I would rate the pricing a five out of ten.
I've used CockroachDB at a small scale on the free accounts because we are only testing.